Calls for end to elephant breeding in Irish zoos following deaths 

Three Dublin Zoo elephants have been struck down by a disease that can kill within 24 hours, and two have already died.

There have been calls for an end to the breeding of elephants in Irish Zoos after two of the animals died within a week of each other.

On July 8, Dublin Zoo announced the death of an elephant Zinda aged 7, from suspected elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV) following the passing of Avani, aged 8, on July 1 from the same virus.